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Selling Mac on eBay. Need advice please.
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Join Date: Jan 2006
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I'm going to sell my Power Mac G4 on eBay. I am going to do a Buy it Now probably. I really want the listing to look very nice and professional. Should I spend extra money on some features like more photos and a top page listing? I really need to sell this Power Mac. How can I make my listing look really nice? I've sold things on eBay before, but nothing this big and worth so much.
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Truth be told, it doesn't really matter, in my experience. People like buying from non professional looking listings because they think that the price will be lower. I always just go for plain text, for just that reason.
I do however add a whole bunch of photos. If you have webspace then you can host them yourself, without having to pay ebay.
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Join Date: Feb 2005
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Hmm.
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naaah.
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I dont think it really matters if you add extra photos; we sold the iMac G5 for a very good price and did'nt have anything special.
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Dude, all you do is make you design in your HTML editor and add it as your description -- no need for fancy crap eBay tries to sell.
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Agreed. You don't need the extra crap eBay sells. I usually get what I want - or more - for my auctions on eBay. Why? Good, large pictures, clear descriptions, and a little color.
Don't use eBay's photo hosting - it's limited and I believe they charge for larger pictures. Host on Flickr or Google Photos (picasaweb) or your .Mac account or something. Make sure potential bidders can see everything about what you're selling.
Give a complete rundown of the specs of the computer. While some people don't care about that, others do - cover all your bases. Set a Buy It Now price if you want, but also allow bidding. I never set reserve prices and always start my bidding at $0.99. Make your shipping quotes fair. If you do insist on setting a reserve price, don't make it ridiculously high - that will discourage potential bidders.
Good luck!
PS. For something this big, make sure to be extremely clear on your return policy, if anything. I sold a dead laptop to a kid that lied to me and claimed she lost her wallet (I was naive when this happened and bought her story like a schmuck), and I hadn't really specified my rules. FWIW, I generally give someone three business days to contact me with problems after the item shows up as "delivered" on FedEx's tracking site. After that, they're SOL. I also require payment within five business days after the end of the auction.
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Sell or send me your vintage Mac things if you don't want them.
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Join Date: Jan 2006
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Thanks for the good advice all. I'll be putting it up for sale as soon as I get back from Georgia then. I'm going to do a Buy it Now but with bidding. I do have my own website which I sometimes forget about, so I can use that for pictures.
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